Margot 2009
"At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette..."
Overview
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repu
Director: Otto Bathurst
Cast
Anne-Marie Duff
Margot Fonteyn
Penelope Wilton
B.Q.
Con O'Neill
Tito
Lindsay Duncan
Madam
Derek Jacobi
Fred Ashton
Matthew Hart
Michael Somes
Michelle Bonnard
Sally
Margot Leicester
Cathy
Michiel Huisman
Rudolph Nureyev
Anton Lukovkin
Eric